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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Launch Thread and Post Launch Discussion

    ?? What tunnels? Flame diverter? You mean in Starbase, TX? I presume you are kidding
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    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Insurance industry is ripe for disruption. You heard it here from me first. Just like how the outrageous late fees from video chain Blockbuster sealed their fate, time is now ripe to disrupt the greedy auto and home insurance industries.
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    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    You are saying this based on your own experience or on what you have been reading from others experiences ?
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-4 - Starbase TX - Pre-Launch Preparations Thread

    Huh? I can see the context from Buckminster's post. Here is a screen capture below. I am guessing for some reason the twitter urls are not translating to actual message for you because you do not have an X account?. And if not having a free X account is the reason, then that is your problem and...
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Launch Thread and Post Launch Discussion

    How did the OLM infrastructure fare ? Any damage? Experts like me have pointed out many times, having an exhaust tunnel is the only way to go. Please tell me that I am correct and SpaceX is wrong.
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Launch Thread and Post Launch Discussion

    .. so maybe you need tiles inside too :-)
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    Wiki Super Heavy/Starship - General Development Discussion

    Before getting to higher payload capacities, they need to demonstrate landing and in-orbit refueling. No word yet on how that went in IFT-3
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Launch Thread and Post Launch Discussion

    Is this coastline Madagascar ?
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Launch Thread and Post Launch Discussion

    Thank you. Any reason why a slow down is not necessary for SH before hitting the atmosphere, but needed for F9 booster ?
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Launch Thread and Post Launch Discussion

    No reentry burn for Booster to slow it down before it hits the atmosphere at 55M attitude ? ?
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    Supercharger - Raymondville, TX

    Welcome addition enroute to South Padre/Boco Chica !! You can fill it up here, go to Boca Chica and back. Around 140 miles roundtrip
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    Supercharger - Brownsville, TX - Ruben M Torres Blvd

    Any idea why this is still in Permit stage? For close to a year now !
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    Supercharger - McAllen, Texas

    We need a large one at South Padre or Port Isabelle. A minimum of 16 or better 24 unit SC.
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Pre-Launch Preparations Thread

    Thank you Thats what I thought. That flight path for Booster is just plain wrong.. and silly.
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Pre-Launch Preparations Thread

    Why would the booster fly eastwards after the end of boostback phase ? How could it even do that? using just grid fins? This same question was asked in the previous flight too trajectory too.
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-4 - Starbase TX - Pre-Launch Preparations Thread

    We are talking about IFT-4 already ?
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    Supercharger - Lubbock, TX - E Slaton Hwy

    Any site that sees lower traffic today, is only a matter of time that will get saturated pretty soon. I remember when Waco CSB location opened up with 16 stalls, it was mostly empty. They even had free coffee for Teslas. Two years later there were cars waiting even on normal days, which forced...
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    SpaceX's Rising Tide - Discussion of non-SpaceX launch companies

    Let them first send a block of cheese in one full orbit and land it..
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    Supercharger - Lubbock, TX - E Slaton Hwy

    Interesting. Wondering what is the experience of Bucees and other gas station chains?
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    Supercharger - Pleasanton, TX

    Great !! There are a few TMC accounts that manage supercharge.info site. I can’t recollect now their TMC IDs. I am sure someone can notify them to update that site.
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    SpaceX Starship - Integrated Flight Test #2 - Starbase TX - Including Post Launch Dissection

    Ha thank you !! 🧠 💡⚡⚡ <light bulb comes on> This is the part I never grasped from all the discussions earlier. Now it makes sense.. I was thinking there was a pump that is forcing and venting the LOX.. but that is not how this works. Thanks !!
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Pre-Launch Preparations Thread

    I am always worried that in a WDR.. the computer goes rogue, and keeps going and the thing launches.. ;)🤣
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    SpaceX Internet Satellite Network: Starlink

    He is just being factual. If there is a cellular service from a tower that has higher strength, obviously the phone would connect to that tower. A mobile phone would connect to the "cell tower" in the sky (Starlink satellite) only if that mobile is sufficiently far away from any land based...
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    SpaceX Starship - Integrated Flight Test #2 - Starbase TX - Including Post Launch Dissection

    If LOX vent is supposed to simulate the jettisoning of payload, then why vent it even before the engines are shutdown? I mean payload is jettisoned after reaching orbit and after the engines are shutdown, but in this flight LOX venting started happening even before the engines were shutdown. I...
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    Supercharger - Pleasanton, TX

    You are hoping a Supercharger will come or is there one in construction here already? If it is the former, then please change the title accordingly
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    SpaceX Starship - Integrated Flight Test #2 - Starbase TX - Including Post Launch Dissection

    I feel like an history student from the local community college who wandered into a Math class at MIT. Why would do you have to vent LOX vent if there is no payload? I don't see the connection. If they ended up with excessive LOX at the end of the burn, for whatever reason, why bother...
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    Agreed. If people don't fly in airplanes, the number of deaths due to air accidents would be zero. If our goal is to reduce airline fatalities to zero, then that is the only way to do it.
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    Our own TMC member Alex Avoigt
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    SpaceX F9 - IM-1 Nova-C Lander - LC-39A - Includes Post Launch Discussion

    What science can it do now, resting on its side ?
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    SpaceX F9 - IM-1 Nova-C Lander - LC-39A - Includes Post Launch Discussion

    I am confused. Did it land upright or not.? Eric Burger's article and the tweets from Intuitive Machines indicate all is well, but no pictures from the lander yet after touchdown?
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    SpaceX F9 - IM-1 Nova-C Lander - LC-39A - Includes Post Launch Discussion

    and so did the Indians and on the South pole.
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    SpaceX F9 - IM-1 Nova-C Lander - LC-39A - Includes Post Launch Discussion

    I can’t believe in this day and age they can’t at least telecast telemetry live all the way up to landing. The Indians did have live telemetry going throughout till touchdown and beyond.
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    SpaceX Internet Satellite Network: Starlink

    Thanks for all that wonderful data. Confirms by hypothesis that you need more satellites and your numbers tell me that it is 50% increase !!
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    I think it aborted the lane change went back to the left lane because it knew the right lane was ending, perhaps using map data?. Seems correct behavior to me.
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    It is not that this has been solved over a million times by others for him to know exactly what it would take to reach the goal. To me this is like Clark & Lewis kind of expedition. The ocean is just around the corner they thought, not realizing they are still a 1000 miles from Oregon border.
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    SpaceX Internet Satellite Network: Starlink

    I was wondering the same thing. There is a reason why satellites don't orbit that close. Also at lower attitudes it passes a region much quicker with reduced coverage span. But I guess that can offset with more satellites.
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    Wiki SpaceX as a Company - General Discussion

    Can you please explain how the dog leg maneuver has to do anything with the landing location? I thought it is everything to do with avoiding population centers during launch for some orbits
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    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Recalling everyone one of what they sold. Is it 4 or 8 units?
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    SpaceX F9 - Telkomsat HTS 113BT - SLC-40

    BORING !! Bulls Eye ! And that is exactly how it should be.
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    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    "Meanwhile, it is building those stations at sharply lower costs. According to EVAdoption’s data, Tesla has won $17 million to build a total of 41 charging stations. The next-biggest winner of grants, Oklahoma-based Francis Energy, was awarded much more money — $29.5 million — to build fewer...
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    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Exactly !!! As long as he takes the right decisions that delivers results, I really don't care how much time he spends thinking about Tesla... which I think he has been doing great so far
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    Would someone hack the software for TMC website to remove the 'Funny' emoji for one member of this forum?
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    SpaceX Starship - IFT-3 - Starbase TX - Pre-Launch Preparations Thread

    mucking around.. tinkering around..
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    Supercharger - Temple, TX

    This is crazy. I think it will be a few years before Bucees gets filled up even during holidays.
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    TMC App not showing twitter links ?

    Just the same in my car... No improvement. I was just saying tongue in cheek.. we may end up see the same "it is fixed.. it is not fixed" for Twitter/X links here too :) The links here seems just as iffy. Here is one where it did not work today